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UK Standard Shipping (Usually 1st class Royal Mail)

Order value up to £10.00 Shipping £1.75 Order value up to £100.00 Shipping £3.25 Order value over £100.00 Shipping is FREE†.†Order value over £150.00 Shipping is FREE (for orders including LiPO, LiFEPO4 and Lead Acid Batteries)

Guaranteed Next Day delivery.

£8.45 by APC 24. Delivery is guaranteed* for the next business day (Mon-Fri) * Mainland UK only. Northern Ireland, Highlands & Islands are charged at between £11.95 & £15.95, delivery aim is 2-3 days

Royal Mail Special Delivery

This is guaranteed for delivery by 1pm the next working day (including Saturday). Orders up to 1kg in weightare charged at £8.95, up to 2kg is £10.95. Note: Orders over 2kg can be sent by Royal Mail Special Delivery, but the price from Royal Mail for this weight is very expensive, we recommend that you use the APC 24 hour service instead.

Royal Mail has recently changed the rules on what they will & will not allow to be posted. This has a serious effect for us as many of our products now fall into categories classed as "prohibited" or "restricted" by Royal Mail. Details of these restrictions are as follows:

Sealed Lead-acid batteries:

Royal Mail will still carry these as long as there is no more than one battery in any package & the weight of that battery must be no more than 1.5kg. This applies to UK domestic mail only, this type of battery is now prohibited from airmail post.

Lithium batteries (Lipo, LiFe, lithium ion etc):

Royal Mail will not carry these batteries to either UK or international destinations. Although Royal Mail rules allow for lithium batteries to be sent with the equipment, in practice these rules are ignored & packages containing equipment with batteries are intercepted by Royal Mail & are destroyed.

1.2V 2000mAh AA NiMH Pack of 4 Panasonic Eneloop Battery

Quick Overview

Recharge up to 2,100 times!
Latest in rechargeable batteries!
Supplied ready charged for immediate use.
Once charged will hold their charge for long periods
90% of initial charge remaining after 12 months.
Charge using any standard NiMH battery charger.

Details

This is the 4th generation of Eneloop rechargeable batteries (BK-3MCEE) with up to 2100 charge cycles. They loose only 10% of their capacity after 1 year and and they still hold up to 70% after 5 years.

Panasonic Eneloop Batteries are the latest in rechargeable battery technology from the company that is generally regarded as leading the world in this field.

It is well known that high quality NiMH rechargeable batteries outperform disposable ones (including even the very best alkaline batteries) in power hungry gadgets such as digital cameras, but there were 2 areas where they had problems.....1.) They had to be charged before first use.2.) Once charged they would run down without even being put in anything, typically losing around 25% of the stored energy per month. Not really a problem when you are charging them frequently, but for lowpower or occasional uses this could become inconvenient.

Eneloop batteries have solved these problems.The batteries are supplied charged, so just use them straight after purchaseThe batteries discharge at a much slower rate than conventional NiMH batteries, losing only about 10% of the stored energy after 12 months & even a 5 years after being charged there is still 70% of the initial charge still available. So you get all the benefits of traditional NiMH rechargeable batteries, without the drawbacks - and you can still use a standard NiMH charger to charge them up again (maximum charge current 2000mA)